A 37-year-old woman was left in critical condition after two gunmen opened fire on her and two teenagers on the 7100 block of South Campbell Avenue Saturday evening, striking her in the head, right hand, and left wrist. The 15-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl standing with her were also hit, though both were listed in good condition afterward. Police say the attack happened just before 7 p.m. and that the shooters sped off in a light-colored sedan.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, two unidentified gunmen fired multiple gunshots at the trio around 6:58 p.m. Saturday, according to Chicago police. The 15-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to his neck and a graze wound to his chest, while the 17-year-old girl was shot in her right knee. Both were taken to hospitals for treatment, and Area 1 detectives are now investigating the shooting.
Trauma Network Springs Into Action
The teens and the woman were taken to three different hospitals. The 15-year-old was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, the outlet reports, which operates the only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center on Chicago's South Side, according to UChicago Medicine.
The 17-year-old girl was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, per the same Sun-Times report, while the 37-year-old woman in critical condition was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in nearby Oak Lawn. That hospital is nationally among the highest-volume and highest-acuity trauma centers, handling more than 3,300 Level I trauma activations annually, according to Advocate Health Care, and it frequently receives severe trauma cases out of Chicago's Southwest Side.
A Block With a History of Gunfire
The 7100 block of South Campbell Avenue is not new to violence. A 2013 shooting on the same block left a 33-year-old man wounded in the shoulder and leg after a gunman emerged from an alley and opened fire while the victim sat on a porch, according to DNAinfo. The neighborhood is on Chicago's Southwest Side.
Chicago Lawn falls under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Police Department's 8th District, led by Commander Bryan Spreyne. Between 2018 and 2022, the neighborhood recorded 473 fatal and non-fatal shooting victims, a rate of 92.4 gunshot victims per 10,000 residents, according to the Illinois Department of Human Services.
Saturday's shooting adds to a string of recent gun violence in the area that Hoodline has reported on in the last month, including a fatal shooting weeks earlier on the very same South Campbell Avenue corridor and a critical shooting on West 63rd Street in late August.
Citywide Declines Haven't Erased Gun Violence
The shooting comes even as Chicago's overall violent crime numbers have fallen sharply. The city recorded a 29% decline in homicides in 2025 compared to 2024, pushing the annual homicide rate to its lowest point since 1965, according to NORC at the University of Chicago. During the first half of 2026, ten of thirteen major crime categories declined citywide compared to the same period a year earlier, per the Council on Criminal Justice.
Researchers have also examined trauma infrastructure on the South Side in connection with shooting outcomes.
If caught, the shooters could face criminal charges. No arrests have been announced, and the motive behind the shooting remains unclear.
